Vinton Cerf famous quotes

Surf the Web is a happy coincidence.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Surf #Coincidence

We live in a very complex world.
-- Vinton Cerf

#World

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Long #Growth #Doe

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Special #Telephones #Fax

They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person's life. In other words, it's evolving fast and faster.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Dog #Business #Years

Instant messaging and chat rooms have basically created a level playing field for deaf people.
-- Vinton Cerf

#People #Level Playing Field #Levels

But what we all have to learn is that we can't do everything ourselves.
-- Vinton Cerf

The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Running #Want #Making Money

Engineers are really good at labeling and branding things. If we had named Kentucky Fried Chicken, it would have been Hot Dead Birds.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Kentucky #Bird #Hot

Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
-- Vinton Cerf

#May #Digital #Needs

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Country #Numbers #Fundamentals

There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Japan #Energy #China

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Careers #Career Change

The computer would do anything you programmed it to do.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Computer

In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Goes On #Range #Company

Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Today #Billions #Users

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Tendencies #Company

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Internet

I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Nervous #Teach #Stanford

We had no idea that this would turn into a global and public infrastructure.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Ideas #Infrastructure #Turns

I no longer give Power Point presentations, because I've come to believe that power corrupts, and Power Point corrupts absolutely.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Believe #Giving #Power Corrupts

The last decade of Internet evolution has been marked by innovation. That innovation has been a consequence of the open and neutral access that the Internet has afforded up until now.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Innovation #Lasts #Evolution

If you are deaf, you need captions for spoken elements. If you are blind, you need voiced descriptions of Web contents and spoken renderings of e-mail. The range of physical disabilities is very large, and we need many different tools to overcome the consequential barriers to Internet use. Let us commit ourselves to truly assuring that the Internet really is for everyone.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Different #Needs #Tools

In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Choices #Tolls #World

Those are all computational engines that are highly distributed and therefore highly robust, .. We're seeing a very significant evolution in the way we even think about computer systems, let alone specific applications.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Thinking #Way #Computer

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Effort #Bears #Given

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Information #Mankind

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.
-- Vinton Cerf

#December #Computer #Ends

Google’s objective is to organize the world’s information and to make it accessible. Unicode plays a central role in this effort because it is the principal means by which content in every language can be represented in a form that can be processed by software. As Unicode extends its coverage of the world’s languages, it helps Google accomplish its mission.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Mean #Play #Effort

We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Numbers #Internet #Speed

At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown,
-- Vinton Cerf

#Government #Google #Danger

There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Engineering #Data #Administration

Privacy may actually be an anomaly,
-- Vinton Cerf

#May #Anomalies #Privacy

In a town of 3,000 people there is no privacy. Everybody knows what everybody is doing.
-- Vinton Cerf

#People #Towns #Privacy

My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Reality #Administration #Serious

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Entrepreneur #Decision #Investing

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Taken #People #Purpose

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Appliances #Wells #Devices

Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Power Corrupts #Powerpoint

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Programming #Enticing

If we do not like what we see in that mirror the problem is not to fix the mirror, we have to fix society.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Mirrors #Problem

I'd like to know what the Internet is going to look like in 2050. Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Thinking #Years #Eight

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Survival #Pressure #Crisis

What's wonderful about Google is that as long as you bring ideas to the table, it doesn't matter what else is going on.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Ideas #Long #Google

Now, more than ever, the Internet must be wielded along with other media to cast bright lights on all who would destroy freedom in the world.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Light #Media #World

Their Internet usage is growing very rapidly, and even they can do the math: If everyone in China needed an IPv4 address - just one - this country would use up one third of the entire public IP address space.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Country #Math #Space

The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Impact #Design #Way

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Moving #Needs #Boulders

By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Innovation #Internet #Middle

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.
-- Vinton Cerf

#Floating #Maxims #Stills